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'''Psychoanalysis''', | It has been over a century since Freud discovered the unconscious, and des`pite multiple attempts to "move beyond Freud," the fundamental insights of '''Psychoanalysis''' have remained robust and thought provoking, while attempts to sidestep him have floundered. Although '''Lacan''' ultimately described his project as '''Dialectical Materialism''', it was [[Slavoj Žižek]] who reaffirmed the importance of Psychoanalysis for Marxism with his 1989 ''Sublime Object of Ideology.'' Alongside an understanding of Heidegger, Psychoanalysis is one of the avenues by which one may discern and avoid the failures of the western left, as Infrared has proven by employing it in their own theoretical revolution. | ||
Psychology concerns itself with the state of mind and the structure of the personality of the individual in question, e.g. in literary criticism, the author. There have been 'proto-Freudian' psychological theories such as that of John Keble, who said that the overpowering emotion, ruling taste or feeling, the direct indulgence of the individual, when repressed leads to some sort of 'indirect expression' e.g. poetry (in literature). This repression is due to the overpowering sentiments of "reticence" (meaning unwillingness to do something or talk about something as a part of one being nervous or careful) and "shame" in an individual. The conflict between the need for expression, on one hand, and compulsion to repress such self-revelation, on the other, is resolved in the case where the poet's ability leads to a “healing relief to secret mental emotion, yet without detriment to modest reserve” by a literary “art which under certain veils and disguises ... reveals the fervent emotions of the mind.” For Keble this concealed mode of self-expression serves as “a safety valve, preserving men from madness.”<ref>John Keble, Lectures on Poetry 1832-1841</ref> | Psychology concerns itself with the state of mind and the structure of the personality of the individual in question, e.g. in literary criticism, the author. There have been 'proto-Freudian' psychological theories such as that of John Keble, who said that the overpowering emotion, ruling taste or feeling, the direct indulgence of the individual, when repressed leads to some sort of 'indirect expression' e.g. poetry (in literature). This repression is due to the overpowering sentiments of "reticence" (meaning unwillingness to do something or talk about something as a part of one being nervous or careful) and "shame" in an individual. The conflict between the need for expression, on one hand, and compulsion to repress such self-revelation, on the other, is resolved in the case where the poet's ability leads to a “healing relief to secret mental emotion, yet without detriment to modest reserve” by a literary “art which under certain veils and disguises ... reveals the fervent emotions of the mind.” For Keble this concealed mode of self-expression serves as “a safety valve, preserving men from madness.”<ref>John Keble, Lectures on Poetry 1832-1841</ref> | ||